What Is Grok Bot? Features, Required Plan, and How It Differs From @grok
Grok Bot is xAI's cloud AI agent, launched in August 2026, that signs into your apps, uses a browser and terminal, and runs on a schedule. Learn how it works, how to get started, how it differs from @grok, and which X Subscription tier you need from October 12.
Grok Bot is an AI agent that xAI released in beta on August 11, 2026. Each Bot has its own cloud computer: it can sign into the sites and apps you already use, open a browser, use a terminal, and finish multi-step tasks, and it keeps running after you close your phone or laptop. As of October 14, 2026, Grok Bot requires a paid plan. The lowest entry point is the $30-per-month Premium tier of the X Subscription; neither the Free tier nor the Plus tier includes it.
The cloud computer behind Grok Bot
xAI's official guide describes Grok Bot as an agent with a computer. That computer lives in the cloud and has a desktop, a filesystem, a terminal, and apps, and the Bot has roughly the same access you would have sitting in front of it. You can open the Bot's window at any time to watch what it is doing or take over, much like a remote desktop. Your phone and your desktop connect to the same machine, so you can check a task's progress from your phone while you are away.
The computer keeps its sign-in sessions. The guide's author gives his own example: one of his Bots searches Facebook Marketplace, and because Facebook stays signed in on that computer, the Bot can start searching right away each time. Shared sessions also create a risk that is easy to overlook; the security section below covers it.
What Grok Bot can do
Three uses come up repeatedly in the official documentation and public coverage.
- Operate across websites for you. It can open pages, sign in, fill out forms, organize files, and run terminal commands, which suits work that jumps between several sites. The official guide's example asks a Bot to add the same items to carts on Costco and Amazon, then compare prices, delivery charges, and delivery times.
- Learn a fixed workflow. You can describe the workflow in a prompt, or open the computer view in a Bot conversation, choose Teach a task, and perform the workflow yourself once; the Bot turns that recording into a skill it can repeat later.
- Run on a schedule or on events. A Bot can set its own schedule or listen for events from other apps; xAI's examples are watching a Slack thread or a GitHub PR. One of the guide author's Bots starts work automatically every weekday.
Grok Bot can also connect to outside tools. The official guide says it supports the same MCP servers, plugins, and skills as Cursor, and the author has connected Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. You can connect more than one account per service, such as a personal and a work email. Bots can message and trigger each other, and you can put several into one group chat to split the work.
All of this is still in beta. xAI does not publish a separate price per Bot, per hour of cloud-computer time, or per scheduled task; how much you can use depends on your plan.